The Senate voted 27-13 for the budget and the House voted 78-38 for the spending plan, which will take effect July 1. Gov. Jeb Bush has 15 days to act on the proposal.

Most of the no votes were cast by Democrats who are outnumbered 2-to-1 in the Legislature. But many Senate Republicans said they thought the budget didn't meet the state's needs and voted for it only because the state requires a spending plan.

The Senate and House could not agree on a budget during the regular two-month session that ended May 2. The fundamental dispute was over how much to spend.

The Senate wanted to boost spending by nearly $1 billion but House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, opposed finding more money, through either tax hikes or expanded gambling, was mostly unwavering.

At one point during the regular session, Byrd and Senate President Jim King, R-Jacksonville, agreed to increase spending by almost half a million dollars but the deal fell apart as the two leaders struggled to settle some two dozen lesser issues.

The Senate then gave up its push for more money with King pointing to the approach of the new fiscal year.

The budget increases funding on public schools by almost $840 million but more than half of that is earmarked for class-size reduction and another major slice -- at least $120 million -- will be dedicated to the state's recognition program for schools that earn a grade of A or improve their grades. That leaves little money for teacher pay raises.

The plan also increases tuition for undergraduate students at the state's 11 public universities by 8.5 percent and for students at the 28 community colleges by 7.5 percent.

The budget does continue the Medically Needy program for some 27,000 people with serious health conditions ranging from cancer to organ transplants. That program had faced restrictions last month that lawmakers reversed at the last minute earlier this month.

Lawmakers also found money for the Florida KidCare program, which provides low-cost children's insurance, but caps enrollment. More money is provided for Florida's troubled child welfare program but less than half of what the Department of Children & Families had said was needed.

While Republicans in the House praised the budget for not raising taxes, Republicans in the Senate bragged that the budget had no local projects, sometimes called "turkeys" in the Capitol.

But Senate Republicans said they weren't happy the spending plan was balanced by some $1.3 billion in one-time sources of cash and some $800 million from trust funds, accounts dedicated for specific purposes rather than general spending.

"The day of reckoning is coming," said Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, who is widely expected to become Senate president after King in 2005.

"I'm going to vote for this budget but I will say this: I have voted for my last budget -- I have voted for my last budget in the state of Florida that's put together with band-aids and paperclips," Lee said.

Several Republicans later endorsed Lee's comments.

But in the House, the GOP lawmakers said the budget was a great plan.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala funeral director, gave the most rousing defense of the budget.

"I go to a lot of funerals and I have never heard so much gloom and doom and depression thinking," the Ocala Republican told Democrats, who had blasted the budget as inadequate.

Baxley pointed to the overall increase in spending from the current budget.

"We're going to spend more than we have ever spent," he said. "It's a great day in the state of Florida."

The budget also skips a sales tax holiday for shoppers for a second year in a row. But it expands a tax credit program for businesses that donate money for scholarships for poor children to attend private schools and keeps in place some $200 million in tax breaks on stocks and bonds and companies buying equipment.

Lawmakers cut funding for the arts and historical programs by half and slashed funding for a smoking prevention program aimed at teens from $37 million to $1 million.

The budget includes a little more money for state attorneys and public defenders but funding will stop completely for one of the three state offices that represents death row inmates. Private attorneys will be paid to take over the cases handled by the Tallahassee office of the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, which generally handles appeals for death row inmates in the northern region of the state.